Many of our undergraduates continue their education in many of the top ranking graduate programs nationwide including Chicago Art Institute, Yale, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), California Institute of the Arts, UCLA and UCSD.

In addition to having distinguished careers as artists, many of our MFA graduates have teaching positions nationwide including, Chris Burden, full professor at UCLA; Kim Abeles, full Professor at CSU Northridge, Tammy Rae Carland, Associate Professor at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC); Mary Ellen Strom is the Chair of the film and video program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Ken Gonzalez-Day, Associate Professor at Scripps College. In general, there are many graduates who teach in many of the finest art programs.

Some notable accomplishments by MFA alumni include:

Alicia Beach, a painter, just closed a one-person show at Rosamund Felsen gallery in Los Angeles.

Kori Newkirk who has had many solo exhibitions and important museum exhibitions recently completed a commission for the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Margaret Morgan and Sean Duffy have regular one person shows at Susanne Vielmetter gallery in Los Angeles.

Tammy Rae Carland is about to open a one-person show in San Francisco.

Mary Ellen Strom due to open a $300,000 public art project entitled Geyserland in Montana in August.

Erica Cho received a highly coveted grant from Creative Capital as well as City of Los Angeles.

Hoang Nguyen whose video work has been featured in Film and video festivals is currently pursuing a PhD in Rhetoric at UCLA.

Ronald Stroud designed the exhibition for the 4th Gwangju Biennale.

Pato Hebert who also teaches at many colleges including Cal Arts is included in an exhibition at Japanese American National Museum.

Viet Le, photographer who was awarded a year-long residency at Provincetown, MA and also recieved the PEN award for emerging writers in 2001.